Quotes about equality

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.William Faulkner

• freedom
• civil rights
• equality

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.Malcolm X

• freedom
• equality
• justice
• initiative

Equality before the general rules of law is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty that can be secured without destroying liberty. It is an equality that neither requires nor assumes people are in fact equal. Our attempt to make people equal in fact by rigging law to produce equal results destroys civility and generalized respect for the law. Government cannot create an advantage for one person without simultaneously creating a disadvantage for another.Walter E. Williams

• civil rights
• equality